The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11
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its public schools open, but supports 1, 100 sa-
! looms
IT takes 1890, 900 gallons of oil year to keep
the railways of Great Britain going, and the cost
is nearly S2,OoO,OOO.
| THERE is restaurant in London where only
those eat who are afflicted with corpulency, the
I food being entirely anti-fat
THERE are now $4,000 less Irish soldiers in the
| British army than there were twenty years ago.
Engilshmen have taken their places
| THE Bolivar CTenn.) Bulletin will be given free
one year to the man or woman who will explain
| the causes and effects of female beauty
| THE Dominion of Canada is in debt to the ex-
tent of sos, 500, 900, fully 500 per head of popu
lation The Dominion debt has increased
| 50, 467, 500 since June /.
RENA Brown, a girl Of Akron o., ran long
splinter under her finger nail. She pulled it out
herself, and then went into spasm and lay APP
parently dead for four hours.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago Gallatin county, Ten
nessee, issued 5000 in bonds. More than
| Sl,O9OOOO in interest has since been paid on
| Them but the bonds themselves have never
| been redeemed.
AN INEVITABLE EXPERIENCE has been had by
New Bedford whaler, just heard from in the
Arctic regions, where she has been frozen in
for eleven months, with the thermometer part
OF the time down to So below zero.
THE body of a Swiss tourist, who persisted
| four years ago when ascending one Of the peaks
in Canton valais, has just been found in perfect
preservation. 1t was completely incased III Ice,
which had thus arrested natural decay.
THE sales of Denver, Col, real estate for the
| first ten months of 1886 amounted to $780,
0S3 80, and the sales for the first ten months of
1887 were S24, 824, 800 70, gain in real estate
| sales of Sl7 OH, III 43 for the latter period.
BILL has been passed by the vice-regal coun-
Gil of India for the protection of wild birds. The
| chief object of the measure is to check the large
| slaughter of certain birds for whose plumage
there is demand in the European markets.
SHRILL CRIES of "Oh, mamma! Oh mamma ~
brought New Lisbon, Pa, people to creek to
| find, instead of a drowning child, Miss Henrietta
! Arters pet crow Complacently practicing his
favorite phrase, picked up from the neighboring
children.
| A COLUMN of brick masonry, about twenty
feet high, is still standing, overgrown with ivy,
7 amid a group of fine old trees on the James
| river. 1t is all that remains of the church
| erected by the jamestown colony early in the
| seventeenth century.
A NEGRO at Eden Station, Miss. on last Satur-
day ate twelve boxes of sardines in the space of
thirty minutes and then asked for a box of
| potted ham. which was refused him. He says
| IL - Il ndIu country NneIG d man can Duy
enough to eat with his money.
| A YOUNG MAN at Tiffin. O., courted young
| lady until o'clock in the morning When he
started to go home he found the door fastened
with wires so that he could not open it. When
he tried to crawl out of a window he was
| arrested as burglar and had TO be identified
| by the girl
THE pocket sewing machine, to introduce
which company was formed in England, and
| shares sold for general investment under very
| glowing prospectus is now said to be a failure
| and the manipulatorS of the company are
charged with deliberately getting up the scheme
| to Swlndle investors
| LONDON appears 10 be much better fixed in the
| matter of school accommodations than most of
the large cities on the other side of the Atlantic
| At the recent reaSsembling of the School Board
the Chairman, Rev: j. B. Diggle, stated that
there are now facilities in London for teaching
| 657, 337 children, while there are only 633 05S
| names on the school rolls"
| A CONTINGENT of the Salvation Army on land
| ing at Bombay lately not only announced that
| they had definitely adopted Indian dress, but
| Indian food. native paper commenting on
this says They, then had their first Indian
dinner on rice and curry, which they declared
| to be the most delicious dish they had ever
eaten. Our people can learn an infinite deal
| from the Salvationsts. "
JOHN BRIGHT recently wrote letter in which
| he said; am not in favor of what is called a
Labor party in Parliament The best representa-
tlves of industry in past time have not been
| labOrers in the common sense. Mr.. Hume was
not a labOrer, nor was Mr.. Golden. nor is Mr.
| Charles NierS, nor am |, and yet how much
| have we and many others done on behalf of the
bulk of our laboring population!''
THE native merchants of China are said, to be
| inveterate swinders. foreign dealer at
| Tientsin recently contracted for 500 bales of
camel'S wool, guaranteed free of dirt and sand
| When the first ipstallment had passed through
| the cleaning machine IS per cent of the gross
weight was found to be sand and gravel
and besides that, the wool had been wet to
| make the dirt stick in and also to make it
| heavier.
| simmons, the well. known American sculptor
| at Rome, has just completed very fine statue
of Longfellow, which is to be erected in
| Portland, Me- The poet is represented in sit
ting attitude and the likeness is said to be most
| admirable. The bronze figure which if stand
| ing would be 10 feet high, is to be placed on a
| pedestal of polished red granite which is to be
| II feet high. The statue will be unveiled at
| Portland in May.
| IT takes nearly 100,000,OO0 foreign eggs a
month to keep the English in cakes and pud-
| dings The matter of tie protection of the
| English hen from the competition of the paIper
fowls OF France has been thought so serious
| that even Gladstone has paid some attention to
| 1t. Experts estimate that the consumption of
eggs in England is 100 year for every person.
Nearly $l5 COO 900 is paid every year for the eggs
| imported into the country.
SECRETARY OF STATE KELSEY of New Jersey
started a fund some months ago for a monu-
| ment over the grave of Gen. Mcclellan He
| asked subscriptions only of intimate friends of
| the dead soldier. and has received about 81, 900
The grave plot is too small to admit of the elab-
| crate shaft the money would buy, and as a
| larger plot cannot be chosen until Mrs Nc
Clellan, who is in Italy, is consulted the matter
| must rest until her return in the spring.
GRUYERE CHEESE, which has been made bv the
| farmers of Jura. Swift erland. under a system
| by which each in turn made a cheese of the milk
| of the whole community given to him every day
| is now made in n factory TO which all the farm
ers take their milk, and the product of which is
common property, instead Of each cheese being
the individual property of the man vino made
it, This makes the cheese more uniform and
of better quality, and increases the farmers
profits.
A GIAMoRGANsHIRE BARD" recently sent n
jubilee poem to the Queen, which was returned
with the curt information that ''it is IA fixed
rule that her majesty does not receive poetry"
This fixed rule however, did not prevent the
Queen from ''graciously accepting" some
verses by Highland poet. entitled she Noddt
to Me, some time ago. Why, therefore gal
liant little Wales should have been so ruthlesslv
snubbed it is not ersy to understand and il is
true that there is not another sovereign in Fin
rope who would have been so ungracious to an
humble subject.
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